Springfield Police Dept.Dangerousness hearings were held for Henry Clinton, top, Shareef Ibrahim, bottom left, and Nicholas Rivera, bottom right, in Springfield District Court on Friday. The three Springfield men each have pleaded innocent to two counts of assault to murder, and one count each of armed and masked robbery, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, possession of a firearm in felony, possession of a firearm without an FID card.

SPRINGFIELD - A District Court judge on Friday said 18-year-old Nicholas Rivera is too dangerous to be released from jail under any conditions, and ordered him held without right to bail for the 90 days allowed by law.

But Judge Robert A. Gordon denied the prosecution’s request to hold without right to bail Rivera’s two co-defendants in a case involving a shooting at two police officers early Tuesday morning.

Gordon set bail at $50,000 cash or $500,000 surety for Shareef T. Ibrahim, 18, of 16 Whittier St.

Ibrahim was on probation on an armed robbery conviction and after his arraignment on the new charges he was ordered held without right to bail for violation of probation. Defense lawyer Dale E. Bass said he will address the bail issue on the probation violation at a later date.

Gordon set bail at $25,000 cash or $250,000 surety for 19-year-old Henry Clinton of 481 Central St.

Clinton’s lawyer, Tracy E. Duncan, put three witnesses on the stand at the hearing who said Clinton was with them at the time of the incident.

The three young men each have pleaded innocent to two counts of assault to murder, and one count each of armed and masked robbery, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, possession of a firearm in felony, possession of a firearm without an FID card.

Assistant District Attorney Eduardo Velazquez said the three have, by past behavior, shown “little or no respect for the law” and at the time of the new offenses had “little or no respect for human life.”

There were about 30 family members and friends of the three defendants in the courtroom for the hearing.

Susan Hamilton, lawyer for Rivera, of 16 Dexter St., told Gordon the courtroom was filled with family and community members, and in the audience were people ready to take each of the defendants home where the men could be electronically monitored by the Probation Department while the case proceeds.

Police officer Clay Canning testified at the hearing he and officer Darrin Fitzpatrick spotted a car on Melrose Street matching the description of a vehicle involved in an armed robbery a short time earlier.

In that robbery, a man told police he was held up at gunpoint and his watch was stolen.

Canning said he and Fitzpatrick approached the car and shined a spotlight on it, and Rivera and another suspect got out of the front seat and ran off.

Ibrahim stayed in the back seat, Canning said. Canning said he found a .22-caliber pistol on the front seat. Canning said he was leaning into the car and heard a “snap” that he knew was gunfire. He said Fitzpatrick fired two rounds in the direction of the two men who fled.

Canning said it was Rivera who was firing at them. He said the victim of the robbery later identified Rivera as the person who took the watch from him at gunpoint.

Canning said Rivera was captured a short distance away from where the car was stopped and police found a .32-caliber revolver behind a house where the two suspects ran. The third man fled.

Hamilton, Bass and Duncan all challenged the robbery victim’s identification of the three men, criticizing the method used by police in getting the identification.